Essays on Food Shortage

The 2007-08 Global Food Crisis led to a humanitarian crisis culminating in starvation and poverty. This piece of academic work places specific emphasis on the interlinked factors that affected Africa, particularly the poorest socio-economic demographic. A lethal combination of both manmade issues and natural causes...

During the twentieth century, there was substantial growth in the human population, a phenomenon largely explained by the increase in food production. The manufacture of nitrogen fertilizers, with nitrogen being the mineral nutrient plants need the most, and the cultivation of large areas of previously...

Food crisis occurs when the statistics of hunger and malnutrition increases quickly. This can also be global. This definition recognises a food crisis from chronic hunger, although food crises are far more likely among populations already suffering from pre-existing hunger and malnutrition. This can be...

Rightly said by Duncan Mclaren “Famine is not caused by shortage of food; it’s caused by shortage of justice.” Consistently on Independence Day, the country sets itself up to show appreciation to the saints who highlight in its check red history of colonization. This year...

A famine is an acute episode of extreme hunger that results in excess mortality due to starvation or hunger-induced diseases. The IPC has set up guidelines stating that in order for a food insecurity situation to be declared a famine it must meet three specific...

The social justice and equity issue I believe deserves to have more light brought to it is the world’s hunger crisis. According to CARE global hunger crisis charitable foundation, as of 2017 there are 815 million people in the world who do not have enough...

“Being hungry means more than just missing a meal. It’s a debilitating crisis that has more than 820 million people in its grip”. It’s a continuous cycle that doesn’t end due to the people suffering from hunger are not able to work and or provide...

In Bjorn Lomborg article, The Truth About the Environment, he discusses the four big environmental fears that environmentalists worry about although he argues that environmental conditions are better now than they have ever been in the past. Lomborg makes the argument of there being more...

Haiti is a country located in the Caribbean and it is among the lowest countries on the 2019 HDI rankings. Haiti is a third world country on the three-world model and this is because of issues like its life expectancy being 63. 81 because of...

Over half of Haiti’s population lives in extreme poverty, making it one of the most food insecure countries in the world. Vector-borne diseases that are being spread and transmitted through mosquitos are becoming a public health crisis across the globe. This is especially true in...